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We sometimes end up propagating IO blocking through mutexes; however, because there currently is no way of annotating mutex sleeps as iowait, there are cases where iowait and /proc/stat:procs_blocked report misleading numbers obscuring the actual state of the system. This patch adds mutex_lock_io() so that mutex sleeps can be marked as iowait in those cases. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: adilger.kernel@dilger.ca Cc: jack@suse.com Cc: kernel-team@fb.com Cc: mingbo@fb.com Cc: tytso@mit.edu Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477673892-28940-4-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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